Mixtape!

I meant to post this before I left for Germany. It's sort of my "music I listened to the most over the summer/songs that hit me just right, right now" playlist. I tried to keep it to one song per artist, but Passion Pit doesn't really play by the rules. After almost two years, I still can't get enough, so I suppose it's okay. 

Home, Sweet Home

Not a bad view, eh?

I finally found an apartment! Actually, I think my apartment found me. I was with a 5th grade class on their introduction to the school library, kind of awkwardly hanging out while the librarian explained how the library worked, when my Betreuungslehrer (supervising teacher) came in and told me he'd heard of an apartment. So we ran downstairs to the teachers lounge where the landlord was sitting on his break. He's one of the music teachers at the Gymnasium, and he had the 4th floor of his house/apartment building up for rent. I got to visit that afternoon after school, and of course I took it! I moved in two days later. 

Grüße aus Deutschland!

Köln Hauptbahnhof

It's been about a week since I got here, and I can hardly believe it. So much has happened already! I've lost 24 hours due to flight time/time difference, been to Frankfurt and Cologne, spent 4 days at a conference, settled into one room, resettled into another room immediately after, and I've visited the school where I'm working.